Post has recently launched an aggressive workplace safety programme which they call “I am for zero”. From the material that has been circulated on the issue, particularly in
the form of workplace posters, the phrase “I am for zero” refers to senior management representatives, including the Managing Director, stating that they are for zero tolerance and zero injuries when it comes to workplace safety.
This is great! We can’t find one flaw in the intention of Post’s new safety programme and all encouragement should be offered to any staff member who needs to step up and shape up when it comes to workplace safety. But this also applies to senior management representatives, particularly those responsible for the implementation of new, more “efficient” ways of performing traditional Australia Post work.
Take the subject of Separate Bundle Delivery or “SBD” as an example. SBD has long been the topic of ongoing strenuous opposition from theUnion during negotiations due to the overwhelming health and safety risks associated with the performance of delivery work via the SBD model, particularly via motorcycle. Serious health and safety risks have been identified through trials not only by the Union’s appointed OH&S assessment team, but also from independent and Post’s own teams who have been commissioned to undertake health and safety assessments on the proposed new mode of work.
Post can’t have it both ways on safety – they can’t say one thing through their “I am for zero” programme and advocate a totally different position where profits and efficiency always seem to prevail over common sense and the health and safety of employees.
Well, our members have told us they want to send a safety message of their own to management. So the Union has designed some workplace posters to highlight the safety dangers associated with SBD and promoting their own “I am for zero” message of their own. Delivery AURs will have recently received a copy of these posters and are asked to display them on your Union noticeboard.
However if you wish to download and print more copies of the posters off at home, click here to download the poster or contact your official on (02) 9893 7822 and request for the provision of further posters at your workplace.
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